"The worse, the better," he answered to the wish, "that it had been better with him." "By the King's great favour I received the Great Seal; by my own great fault I have lost it." They intended him now to come to the bar to receive his sentence.

But he was too ill to leave his bed.

They did not push this point farther, but proceeded to settle the sentence (May 3).
He had asked for mercy, but he did not get it.

There were men who talked of every extremity short of death.

Coke, indeed, in the Commons, from his store of precedents, had cited cases where judges had been hanged for bribery.